Walter Reuther(American Leader)

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Walter Philip Reuther was an American labor union leader, who made the United Automobile Workers a major force not only in the auto industry but also in the Democratic party in the mid 20th century. He was a socialist in the early 1930s; he became a leading liberal and supporter of the New Deal coalition, then in the 1940s became a leading anti-Communist and supporter of the Cold War and the Vietnam war.